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title: Oh Dear, She Got Hooked on Nethack Again
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date: 2022-04-24T17:36:33-07:00
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description: In which I get hooked on that one roguelike (God help me)
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categories: ["Games"]
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tags: ["Nethack", "Roguelikes"]
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---
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A couple weeks ago, I connected to my VPS to check on something. There's [a
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part](list-tmux-sessions) of [my dotfiles][zprofile] that runs during login
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shell initialization that prints the currently running `tmux` sessions
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associated with my account. I noticed I had a session running and attached to it
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to see what it was.
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In that session I found a [Nethack][nethack] game that I'd started back in
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January and never finished. I finished the game, killed by a Woodland Elf, and,
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well, the damage had been done.
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It has been three weeks and I've had at least one game of Nethack going on my
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VPS or my laptop nonstop since then. There's been at least one Safari window
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packed with [NetHackWiki][nethackwiki] tabs too, including a pinned one for the
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[Price Identification][priceid] page.
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I may have gotten a little carried away a time or two.
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{{< twitter erynofwales 1510763278691016705 >}}
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I've gotten much better in that time. My scores have increased from the
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1000-2000 range to my best game so far in which [I scored 9401
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points][over9000]. Who's to say if I'll ever ascend, but I am having a lot of
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fun with it.
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It's even got me thinking about building roguelikes... (hmmm)
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For fun and cause I'm a huge nerd, I put together a page on my site that will
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auto-update with my latest scores each time I publish the site. Check out my
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Nethack [logfile](/nethack) for that.
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[zprofile]: https://github.com/erynofwales/dotfiles/blob/main/zprofile#L26
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[list-tmux-sessions]: https://github.com/erynofwales/dotfiles/blob/main/zsh/func/list_tmux_sessions
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[nethack]: https://www.nethack.org
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[nethackwiki]: https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Main_Page
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[priceid]: https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Price_identification
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[over9000]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITWMoS2L1oo
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